Emails indicate that Eric Schmidt's daughter Sophie once suggested that
Cambridge Analytica's parent company work with Palantir.

Cambridge
Analytica later developed a relationship with a Palantir staffer that
produced the idea to use an app to harvest Facebook user data.

Both
Cambridge Analytica and Palantir are owned by conservative billionaires
who funded Donald Trump's election campaign.

LONDON
— Both Peter Thiel's data-mining company Palantir and a daughter of the
former Google chairman Eric Schmidt had connections to Cambridge
Analytica's misuse of Facebook user information, according to documents
seen by The New York Times .

"We learned today that an employee, in 2013-2014, engaged in an entirely
personal capacity with people associated with Cambridge Analytica,"
Palantir told The Times. "We are looking into this and will take the
appropriate action."

The employee was Alfredas Chmieliauskas, according to The Times. His
LinkedIn shows that he is a business-development staffer at Palantir in
London. He suggested that Cambridge Analytica create a personality-quiz
app to harvest data from Facebook users, The Times said. Cambridge
Analytica eventually used a similar method to obtain data from about 50
million Facebook users it could then sell.

The connection between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica was apparently
suggested by Schmidt's daughter Sophie, who had been an intern at SCL
Group, a UK-based defense and intelligence contractor that created
Cambridge Analytica in 2012. A 2013 email seen by The Times indicated that
Sophie Schmidt, who did not respond to the paper's request for comment,
urged that SCL work with Palantir:

"Ever come across Palantir. Amusingly Eric Schmidt's daughter was an
intern with us and is trying to push us towards them?" one SCL employee
wrote to a colleague in the email.

sophie schmidt

Sophie
Schmidt, the daughter of the former Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt,
visiting the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad in 2009. REUTERS/Thaier
Al-Sudani

Cambridge
Analytica and Palantir began their relationship in 2014, when Christopher
Wylie, the pink-haired Cambridge Analytica cofounder turned whistleblower
who testified to Parliament in London this week, visited Palantir's London
headquarters in Soho Square with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix.
The Times said :
"Mr. Chmieliauskas continued to communicate with Mr. Wylie's team in 2014,
as the Cambridge employees were locked in protracted negotiations with a
researcher at Cambridge University, Michal Kosinski, to obtain Facebook
data through an app Mr. Kosinski had built. The data was crucial to
efficiently scale up Cambridge's psychometrics products so they could be
used in elections and for corporate clients.

"'I had left field idea,' Mr. Chmieliauskas wrote in May 2014. 'What about
replicating the work of the cambridge prof as a mobile app that connects
to facebook?' Reproducing the app, Mr. Chmieliauskas wrote, 'could be a
valuable leverage negotiating with the guy.'"

Nix later tried to work officially with executives at Palantir, but they
demurred. Ultimately, Cambridge Analytica pursued the app without
Palantir's official help.

The emails will make uncomfortable reading for both companies.

Thiel is a Facebook board member and a conservative libertarian with a
dystopian view of the future who funded Donald Trump's US presidential
campaign. He became a billionaire through a series of tech investments
including PayPal and Facebook.

Cambridge Analytica was founded by Robert Mercer, the conservative
billionaire hedge fund creator who has also funded Trump and Breitbart
News, the right-wing media group that is often accused of publishing
misleading stories.

Cambridge Analytica is now the subject of criminal investigations in both
the UK and the US over its role in the 2016 US presidential election and
the Brexit referendum in the UK. The company has made contradictory
statements about its alleged role persuading British people to vote to
leave the European Union .

SEE ALSO: All the times Cambridge Analytica gave brazenly contradictory
accounts of its murky work on Brexit

Thiel
is on Facebook’s board and “Zuckerberg has continually
defended Thiel’s presence on Facebook’s governing body
as vital to the company, a balancing presence to stop
the site from sliding too far in any one political
direction.”[2]Thiel
helped lead a meeting to calm down conservatives that
believed they were being “censored” including: Glenn
Beck, Tucker Carlson, Dana Perino, and leaders from the
Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise
Institute.[2].

The
Paradise Papers reveal Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s
connection to Russian tech investor Yuri Milner - also
funded Cadre, a startup that Jared Kushner co-founded
and left off his security clearance forms.[5][6].Nothing
definitive, but another Trump/Russia/Facebook.

Cadre
is also in Peter Thiel’s portfolio.[7]Thiel,
who was part of the Trump transition team, gained a role
following his donation of more than a million dollars to
Trump’s campaign within days of the Billy Bush tape
release.[8]
Bannon said of Thiel:

“I
cannot overstate his impact on the transition,” Bannon
began, describing Thiel as a hidden hand in shaping
Team Trump. “You will see in the near term that Peter
will be taking on new responsibilities, like
intelligence.” While Trump and his communications
squad may rail about Washington’s permanent
bureaucracy, especially those in national-security
positions, Bannon talked about having been in the
trenches alongside Thiel as part of an offensive
against the so-called Deep State”[7]Although
he doesn’t have an official post, Peter Thiel’s
company Palantir was just awarded a $876 million U.S.
Army contract.[9]

AND

Facebook
knew Cambridge Analytica had been abusing user data forthree
yearsand only suspended them
when confronted.[10]

The
finishing touches for this weird twist of characters
some when Michael Cohen presented his side of the Stormy
Daniel’s story inVanity
Fair [^11]

In
another Trumpian twist,Charles
Harder—the attorney best known for representing Hulk
Hogan in his lawsuit against Gawker (Thiel helped
sue and won)—is handling the case on behalf of Trump.
——————

In
October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding
round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc
Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and
Jared Leto.[8] Their investment saw the company valued
at $500 million at the time.[9][10] In July 2017,
Reddit raised an additional round of $200 million at a
$1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications
remaining the majority stakeholder.[11]

Y
Combinator previously too, which is why Hacker News
can’t keep anything up about Vlad Thiel for more than 2
minutes. He has basically used the money he lucked into
to push his anti-enlightenment techno-elitism as some
sort of heterodox thought. Rather than arguing it, which
to be fair he does, though not so openly now, he pays
for it to be spread by others. He also applied pressure
financially and legally to surpress stories. His
contempt for free speech is remarkable.

Thiel
was offered an investment deal by the New Zealand
government, courtesy of the taxpaying public.

Our
shady conservative government at the time offered a deal
where the government would put in around $9 million, and
Thiel would put in $7 million.

NZVIF's
2016 Annual Report, shows the since-abandoned clause
allowed Thiel to take-over the fund for a nominal
price if its investments did well, meaning profits
would be privatised, whiletaxpayers
were still exposed if it tanked.

Thiel
made $30 million off his $7 million investment. The
taxpayer barely broke even.

New
Zealand only hastwodaily
newspapers. Both of those companies are trying to merge,
meaning we would have the same number of broadsheet
outlets as North Korea. Journalism isn't our strong suit
and more needs to be done to uncover Thiel's shady
business dealings here.

New
Zealand after all, is a tax haven for foreign investors
- many global billionaires have their boltholes here,
not that the public would know about it. Thiel was
offered citizenship after spending just 12 days in the
country.

That's
an excuse? Hey, Deutsche Bank gives out a ton of loans
every year, you can tie them to anything! Skadden Arps
represents so many officials and governments, an issue
like this was BOUND to happen eventually!

"We
give money to everyone" is not going to hold up in court
if and when it comes out that you're laundering money or
investing in shady people for shady purposes.

Are
you joking? Do I need to show you all the times Duetsche
Bank alone did that exact thing and paid a small fine
and walked away like nothing happened?

And
really, Y Combinator is a glorified Shark Tank. If you
looked at who they invested in and how much they invest
you'd realize how paranoid you sound right now. Nobody
from Y Combinator is going to court.

Another
note on Yuri Milner, he is a Russian Billionaire
investor with hundreds of millions of dollars from the
Kremlin in his company. Facebook and Twitter were
literally partially funded by Kremlin money.

It
almost like of you set up your corporate structure so
that anyone can enter and them let those corporations
grow so large they can threaten your national security
it creates a wide gaping fucking hole. It's not like the
Russians haven't been trialing shutting down our
electric grid already...

On
a side note, Palantiris
trying to sell their shit to the United States IC and
failing.They lost a big bid,
and then threw temper tantrums, and then sued the
government for not picking them. Harmful, since it
stalls the adoption of any updates, not just Palantir's.
Not exactly a good way to make allies and build
partnerships in the industry.

The
article I linked is accurate for the first half - it
outlines the (decidedly imperfect) system and why
Palantir is acting like a bull in a China shop. In the
article's second half, though, the author alleges that
Trump is going to save us from the swamp -- What? Given
Thiel's involvement with the election, this is the
definition of swamp.

Peter
Thiel is trying to circumvent the system by cronying up
to Trump and having him force the issue.

EDIT:
oh wait. After years of failing their bids/appeals,
guess who won the contract.

Basically,
our Democracy has been "hacked". We are all pawns now -
all of our opinions, all of our beliefs - finely tuned
and controlled by people who understand machine learning
and data mining - to get us to "vote" in whatever
stooge/puppet they need who'll ensure their continuing
power grab.

Exactly.
There's even more beyond this, but exactly zero of it
has reached the MSM's radar. Even Thiel's "friends" are
terrified of him, and he made an example of Gawker. The
media treats him and his with the softest of gloves.

Because
the owners, the owners of this country don't want
that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG
owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy
business interests that control things and make all
the important decisions. ... They don’t care about you
at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice.
Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on.
The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully
ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's
being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the
owners of this country know the truth.

It's
called the American Dream,because you have to be
asleep to believe it.

I
was waiting for someone to point this out. This is like
Cosmic levels of irony! The palantir were notoriously
used by Sauron to paint incomplete truths to twist
people to his whims! Both Sarumon and the steward of
Gondor were corrupted by the visions shown in the
palantir!

The
irony is that in the end the palantir fails because
Aragorn uses them to draw Sauron into a battle before
his armies are ready to crush the last alliance of men
and elves. So it would be really ironic if this leads to
the downfall of these powerful people...

Batman
Forever got it right, except instead of keeping people
mindlessly glued their screens while extracting all
their deepest thoughts and secrets, they were... wait
no, Batman Forever had it pretty well nailed.

The
Earth's population will increase by another 3 billion
people in the next 50 years or so. Most of those people
will be in Africa/Asia, and climate change will push
them to migrate to Europe/US. You can't keep all of them
out, and our current economic models, which rely on
growth, will ensure a lot of them will end up coming
here - our populations will be aging/old, migrants will
be predominantly young.

Most
of them are not doctors/engineers - they'll put pressure
on the lower end of the market - blue-collar jobs -
which by then will already be few and far between in
developed countries due to automation.

It's
a ticking time bomb. Our current "troubles" are just a
small taste of what's to come.

I
have a feeling the Bilderbergs wanted Trump to win, so
they could move forward on their one world government.
One of tge steps outlined for this to happen was tgat
the US must fall from being a superpower.